Police seize more than 2.6 tonnes of cocaine from ‘ultra-fast’ boat off Portugal

More than 2.6 tonnes of cocaine has been seized in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal, Italy's border and customs police said on Monday. The drugs, with an estimated street value of €500 million ($570 ⁠million), was ​found ⁠aboard an "ultra-fast ocean-going rigid inflatable boat", which smugglers typically ⁠use to recover illicit cargoes dropped ​at ⁠sea by large ‌ships arriving from South America, the Guardia di Finanza police said ‌in a statement.Four people were arrested - two Spaniards, a Gibraltar resident and an ⁠Albanian man living in Italy.The operation was conducted in cooperation with Spanish and Portuguese authorities, with Italian prosecutors in the northern city of Brescia coordinating investigations."The wholesale ‌value of the cocaine is ​estimated at approximately